Matjanka Norris Kungkarangkalpa - Seven Sisters 47-23AS, Adelaide Studio, acrylic on Belgian linen, 250 x 200 cm
Matjangka has depicted the infinite and breathtakingly beautiful night skythat is omnipresent above the country of the *APY lands. Detailed doingcreates an expansive field of stars. This is the Milky Way where theKungkarangkalpa tjukurpa depicts the Seven Sisters when they have flownup into the Milky Way and can be seen as the star cluster known as thePleiades or seven sisters. The story involves seven sisters who traveled fromplace to place to escape the man called Nyirru. He constantly changed hisshape so they have to keep running away. He would like to marry theyoungest sister but the other sisters do not like the idea of the sistermarrying the man because he is ugly and has six toes. Eventually the sistersfly up into the Milky Way and can be seen as the star cluster known as thePleiades (Seven Sisters).
